Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and I'm delighted to welcome you to the first film stories podcast of 2022. I'm also delighted that for the first time in the history of this podcast, I've managed to lure an Oscar winning actor to help introduce it. Jared, Jared, over to you, quick. You can do this. You can do this.

Oh, stop. Stop, you're going to make me. You're going to make me cry.

Oh, Jared, Jared, Jared, tone it down, tone it down. You're going over the top.

Nobody has ever said that to me.

Nobody.

Come with me.

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

In movies, movies that had stories.

That this story just sucks a man.

This is just the beginning.

There are stories. we would be honored

if you would join us

hello and a very warm welcome back to film stories with simon brue i am simon brew as

always it's absolutely everything you need to know about me the aim of the podcast though is

as the title suggests well i'm here to talk about me. The aim of the podcast though is as the title suggests,

well, I'm here to talk about the stories of film and I talk about production stories, development

stories, marketing stories, release stories, strange accent stories, all the bits and bobs really that

go to make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and

sometimes love. The films i tend to choose

this podcast they have more of a mainstream leaning to them than anything else there are films i'm

interested in or invested in to some degree i do try not to punch down i do try not to not to do

snark i will pull the leg out of one or two things in this particular episode. But basically, this

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